(Editor's Note: Fresyes national affairs correspondent 559 por Vida is on location in Boston, where he sent this dispatch from the DNC as counterprogramming for those who read the NY Post. Hey Post ... You and Andrea Peyser and Mallard Fillmore can all suggggit.)

Welcome to the Democratic Revolution. If I were to have told you Monday that the most moving and profound political convention speech in American politics since Mario Cuomo's masterpiece in 1992 was delivered by a 42-year-old Illinois State Senator, you would have looked at me like I'd just elected Bubba Skinner mayor. Keynote speaker Barack Obama (Barack the Blessed, per the National Review) took the stage at the Democratic National Convention last night a relatively unknown character. This morning, Barack Obama has gone from anonymity to being a prominent figurehead of the Democratic party.

He's got the fire.

Obama's story is a microcosm of the American dream. His father was a Kenyan immigrant, his mother from Kansas. Former Editor of the Harvard Law Review (which PBS's Jim Lehrer last night credited as the only job harder to get than President of the United States), Obama's political career has exploded through his embrace of an inclusive populist platform. He won his seat for Illinois State Senate by an unthinkable margin ... he received 53% of the vote in a six-candidate race. That, my friends, is what we call a South Side Chicago ASS WHUPPIN'. He became the only candidate for US Senate from Illinois after Perv-O Jack Ryan's abrupt and disgraceful departure earlier this year. (Ed. note: The Fresyes Editorial Board does, however, give Ryan points for hookin' up with Seven of Nine in the first place.) Hey Illinois Republicans...I dare you to run against him...I DARE YOU.

I used to think that Terry McAuliffe was an idiot. Well, if he had anything to do with booking an unknown State Senator from Illinois as keynote speaker, we're cool Terry. You've earned some stripes. Last night's speech has been widely regarded as the rallying cry for the 2004 Democrats. If you missed it...here are some highlights:

"...I'm not talking about blind optimism here-the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs...

"There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

"The skinny kid with the funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too."

How unfortunate that the major television networks chose not to cover last night's performance. Thank god for public television.